Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.

The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.

Dominique as Gail looks at her "... there is a stage of worship which makes the worshiper himself an object of reverence."

One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable to solve its problems, then declaring that freedom has failed and stronger controls are necessary.

Don't worry. They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want. I do.

Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good.

My pride and my power of vision were all that I owned when I started - and whatever I achieved, was achieved by means of them. Both are greater now. Now I have the knowledge of the superlative value I had missed: of my right to be proud of my vision. The rest is mine to reach.